Thursday, February 17, 2011

Stanford 2/15

They bid 1H - 1S - 1N

Partner leads the DT.

Axxxx
Jx
J
Qxxxx
---------Kx
---------KQT9
---------AQx
---------9xxx

We put in the Q, declarer wins the K. Declarer leads the CK out of hand, partner wins the CA. Partner now tables the D9.

What's going on? I'll save you the agony: this is Stanford, so don't trust the bidding (or cardplay) too much. I decided that partner knows that we are supposed to lead the lowest from the remainder of a sequence, so I ducked. I guessed that partner was something like T9xxx in diamonds (otherwise declarer would have WAY too many.)

Partner continues the D7 to our A, declarer shed a heart and a spade from dummy, following twice from his hand. Now what?

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